Reissue! Television's 1977 debut album, Marquee Moon, immediately earned critical raves and inspired a number of musicians and bands. Tom Verlaine's vocals and fret work, Richard Lloyd's angular guitar playing, and Billy Ficca and Fred Smith's halting, unexpected drum and bass work all combined to reassert a guitar-based music during a time when soft-rock and disco ruled the airwaves. The band also ventured -- very successfully -- into extended sonic explorations, despite punk's call for shorter, faster songs.





In addition to Marquee Moon's original eight flawless cuts (including the searing opener, "See No Evil" and the epic title track), this expanded version includes previously unreleased alternate takes of "See No Evil," "Friction," and "Marquee Moon," a previously unreleased instrumental track, and the never-before-on-CD, full-length version of the single "Little Johnny Jewel," which pre-dated the album.